A feeling of being freed from the cage and returning to nature came to Lin Ze's heart.
This feeling is a bit like a graduated student who no longer has to endure the torture of test papers and homework, and is walking home happily.
It's like a social worker after work. He returns to his own private space. He doesn't have to worry about complicated interpersonal relationships or repeatedly revising reports. He can lie down lazily and have a good sleep.
It's more like lovers meeting again after a long separation, hugging each other, warming each other and not wanting to let go.
As his spirit relaxed, a picture flashed through Lin Ze's mind.
A child without an official father was born under criticism, lived in poverty, and suffered from the strange eyes of others. Because she lost hope, her mother took him into the cold river, hoping to end his tragic fate.
Fortunately, the mother and son were rescued. Later, the child was taken to Chang'an, and accidentally stepped into the extremely dangerous battle for the right to inherit the throne. He grew up in fear, walking on thin ice...
Relying on the wisdom of his previous life, the young man followed the dragon's deeds and became a good general who calmed down the troubled times, and then retired into a good minister who governed the world. He was in the limelight for a while...
After all, the childhood friendship is no match for the power that makes people addicted to it. The former good teachers and helpful friends have become powerful ministers who are eager to kill...
The late emperor came back from the dead, and the three religions brought trouble to the world. He became a disciple of the saint, promoted to heaven and human, became self-reliant, and fought for hegemony in the world...
He plotted to seize the destiny, and dealt with many saints. While he was going through all the troubles to plot against the saints, he had already planned to seize the food from the tiger's mouth, and seized the opportunity to step into the realm of saints...
He endures and accumulates knowledge at all costs, just to control his own destiny, and is passively involved in the struggle for transcendence...
Seeing this, a flash of understanding flashed through Lin Ze's mind. This was his experience in this life, and it was also the fetters of his life. It was like dense silk threads that bound him layer by layer, making it difficult for him to break free.
After watching it all like watching a movie, Lin Ze had smiles, sighs, and nostalgia on his face, but no nostalgia.
Even though he has lived in this world for thirty or forty years, he is still out of place, like a strange passerby. Although he has seen countless wonderful and intoxicating scenery, he understands in his heart that no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it is just scenery.
Not home.
As soon as this idea emerged, the picture in front of Lin Ze's eyes all collapsed. Not only that, there was a slight clicking sound from the depths of his soul, which seemed to break an invisible shackles, and his soul became clear, like a spotless mirror.
An idea flashed in Lin Ze's mind, and he seemed to understand what detachment meant, and why people who were not from this world could easily cross the chasm.
The next moment, other pictures appeared in Lin Ze's mind again.
In a southwest mountain village, children trekked more than ten miles of mountain roads and swam through mud to go to school.
The young man Mu Ai was sitting in front of the window upstairs, looking at the smile of the girl he admired, his eyes full of tenderness...
Passionately in love, I took my girlfriend through the streets and alleys, and the most gentle way of bowing my head was just like the shyness of a water lotus that cannot bear the cool breeze...
In the end, love lost to reality and failed to escape the curse of breaking up after graduation...
The blue sky and the cool sea breeze had just blown away the troubles of broken love, but they did not escape the sudden huge waves...
A look of melancholy appeared on Lin Ze's face. It had been a long time since he had thought about his past life so clearly.
If transcendence requires cutting off the bonds of mortal world, will it be cut off twice because I have experienced two lives?
There seems to be nothing to be attached to for a girl who has disappeared from her own world.
Lin Ze's mood was calm and he was about to make a clean break with the past.
However, the scene in front of him changed. There were red brick walls, blue tiles, and in front of the earthen stove, a woman was adding firewood for cooking.
Lin Ze's heart trembled and he couldn't help but stretched out his hand towards the woman.
The woman seemed to sense Lin Ze's presence, turned around, and showed what Lin Ze thought was the sweetest smile.
"You're back, go wash your hands quickly, mom made you your favorite potato stewed pork ribs."
Lin Ze's heart clenched when he heard this, and the corners of his eyes were a little moist. He called out softly: "Mom."
A look of worry appeared on the woman's face: "Silly child, why are you crying? Have you been wronged in school? Don't be afraid, mom will go to school with you tomorrow to find the teacher."
After speaking, he stretched out his hands and tried to hug Lin Ze into his arms.
Lin Ze also opened his hands and closed his eyes, waiting for the warmth deep in his memory.
"Lin Ze, wake up quickly."
Just as he was about to hug him, Lin Ze heard the thunderous reminder from the Taoist Saint.
Lin Ze suddenly opened his eyes. There was no figure of his mother in front of him, only an evil aura exuding from his body and an ugly face, similar to an octopus-like monster.
"Although I know you are lying, why can't you continue to lie and maintain this dream?"
Lin Ze said coldly, and an unknown inner fire emerged from the bottom of his heart. He drew out the long sword from his waist and slashed at the monster without saying a word: "Fuck you, I asked you to deceive your feelings, you can't deceive."
A little longer?"
The long sword fell on the monster, and instead of breaking it in two, it collided with countless sparks.
The more Lin Ze thought about it, the angrier he became. The anger in his heart was vented countless times, and he directly used the magical power of knowing destiny. The saint's aura spurted out from his body, attached to the long sword, and fell towards the monster with crackling sounds.
This time, the defense was finally broken. The long sword cut a series of wounds on the monster's body, and black liquid flowed out from the wounds.
The Taoist Saint reminded him again: "Lin Ze, that is the demon, the other side of living beings. Living things are immortal and demons are immortal, so your attack is useless."
"Only by taking that step and transcending the way of heaven can we get rid of it and prevent it from harming anyone forever."
Lin Ze lowered his head and gave Dao Sheng a cold look: "Who said I want to let it die? I just want to chop it a few more times to remove the fire."
"Besides, the so-called detachment is the annihilation of human nature. Why should I detach?"
The Taoist Saint seemed to have expected what Lin Ze would say, and was already prepared: "Are you not tempted at all by being able to transcend time and space and go to other places?"
Lin Ze's expression changed slightly: "What did you say?"
The Taoist Saint casually suppressed the four saints' strange movements and said with a bewitching tone: "Don't you want to go back to your original world?"
Lin Ze's expression suddenly became a little uncertain, as if he was thinking about the authenticity of Tao Sheng's words.
The Taoist sage added calmly: "The original Taoist disappeared for ten thousand years. He just went to other worlds. Otherwise, the world is so vast, how could there be no trace of him?"
"Have you seen that door? If you step through it, you can transcend the way of heaven. Like the original Taoist, you can travel through countless heavens and earth at ease."
Lin Ze followed the Taoist Saint's words and looked at the golden portal in front of him. Just when he was severing the bond of life, he had already stepped through it with one foot.
All you need to do is cut off your past life obsessions and achieve transcendence at your fingertips.
An inexplicable smile appeared on Lin Ze's face: "Step over there and make you a wedding dress?"
The Taoist sage said proudly: "Lin Ze, you think your teacher is a fool like the Buddha and the Confucian sage. The purpose of teaching your disciples is to use them as a furnace?"
"Every one of them was so complacent that they betrayed and separated from their relatives without any sense of shame. They were even plotted against by their own disciples. They were extremely pitiful."
"I have spent a full three thousand years as a teacher, improving the way to return to the same path. It does not have to devour the disciple's cultivation, but can also gain the disciple's understanding of the great way. I call it Harmony with Light and Dust."
"In other words, you will know it, and my teacher will gradually understand it, and neither you nor my teacher will have to pay the price."
"Speaking of it, your Self-Tao is quite unique. You were a teacher in the mountains behind the Tao Palace. You didn't sleep or drink for three years without eating or drinking, and you have some similarities."
"Over the years, the reason why my master has rarely left the Dao Palace is mostly because of you."
Lin Ze felt his hair stand on end and suddenly realized: "So, the day the teacher accepted the disciple as his disciple, he was thinking of today?"
The Taoist Saint said slowly: "If I didn't secretly add fuel to the fire as a teacher, do you think that just because of your talent, you would advance to the Saint Realm so quickly and have the qualifications to peek into the Transcendent Realm?"
"Have you forgotten who taught you how to fight for destiny? Who coerced and induced you to fight for destiny?"
"Don't you really think that it was just a coincidence that you met Emperor Qin and reached an agreement? Or are you saying that my master created a golden book of luck for you just to gain some insignificant luck?"
"Or maybe you simply feel that your teacher sometimes stands up for you and sometimes deliberately suppresses you, all for his own sake, rather than forcing you to grow?"
"It's as if you sacrificed your destiny and forced your way into the saint realm. You thought it was an opportunity you had carefully planned, but you didn't know that your teacher had anticipated it and was just happy to see it happen."
"Or is it true that the Jianmu Sacred Tree can only be cultivated by you and not by others? I have worked hard to let you enjoy the rewards of heaven alone."
"Of course, you are not without merit. On the contrary, you are excellent. Both in terms of character and talent, you are a top-notch person."
"Since I became a teacher and became a Taoist, only your second senior brother Zhuang Zhou and Buddhist Jin Chanzi can barely compare with you, and the rest are not worth mentioning."
"So, make your choice, either give up the transcendence of heaven, cut off the path of transcendence with your master, and spend the next extremely long life under the oppression of heaven."
"Either you transcend immediately and become a master along the way. Master and disciple, you and I can still leave a good story in the world."
"Whether both sides suffer, or each gets what he needs, helps each other and wins, it all depends on your thoughts."
Lin Ze looked at Taoist Saint who was very frank and told everything openly, with a somewhat uncertain look on his face.
The two-choice multiple-choice question is actually very easy to choose. No fool is willing to do something that harms others but does not benefit oneself.
But Lin Ze was a little worried. Dao Sheng only said half of what he said, and the other half was the hole he dug for himself.
For example, the first one who is detached will be punished by God and will have to fight with the law of heaven to the death, while the second one who is detached can win by lying down or something.
Dao Sheng saw Lin Ze's concerns at a glance and said loudly: "He Guang and Chen Chen are the same person in the eyes of Heaven. If there are any hidden dangers, I will bear them together with you as my master."
Lin Ze thought for a moment, and there was no hesitation on his face anymore, and he decisively took the second step.